IP Library Patent Application 15126781
Patent Application
App. No. 15/126,781

Analysis Device

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15/126,781
Abstract

An analysis device is provided with a flow chip provided at least with a light transmissive first substrate and a second substrate having an inlet and outlet for a fluid, a holding member for holding the flow chip, a fixing member on which the holding member is placed and that comes into contact with the second substrate of the flow chip, a fluid feeding unit for feeding the fluid to the inlet and discharging the fluid from the outlet, an optical detection unit disposed on the first substrate side of the flow chip, and a drive unit for driving the holding member in the X and Y directions.

Claims (55)

1 .- 15 . (canceled)

16 . An analysis device comprising:

a flow chip at least including a first substrate having light transparency and a second substrate having an inlet port and an outlet port for a fluid;

a holding member for holding the flow chip;

a fixing member where the holding member is disposed, and which comes into contact with the second substrate of the flow chip;

a fluid supply unit which supplies the fluid to the inlet port, and which discharges the fluid from the outlet port;

an optical detection unit disposed at a side of the first substrate of the flow chip;

a drive unit driving the holding member in an XY direction; and

a pressurizing unit for pressurizing the holding member or the flow chip against the fixing member,

wherein the pressurizing unit includes a clamp unit for mechanically pressurizing at least two portions of the holding member or the flow chip, and

the clamp unit has a tapered shape.

17 . An analysis device comprising:

a flow chip at least including a first substrate having light transparency and a second substrate having an inlet port and an outlet port for a fluid;

a holding member for holding the flow chip;

a fixing member where the holding member is disposed, and which comes into contact with the second substrate of the flow chip;

a fluid supply unit which supplies the fluid to the inlet port, and which discharges the fluid from the outlet port;

an optical detection unit disposed at a side of the first substrate of the flow chip;

a drive unit driving the holding member in an XY direction; and

a pressurizing unit for pressurizing the holding member or the flow chip against the fixing member,

wherein the pressurizing unit includes a clamp unit for mechanically pressurizing at least two portions of the holding member or the flow chip, and

the pressurizing unit is a cover which is rotatably attached to the fixing member and which has an aperture unit, and the clamp unit is formed to protrude from an external periphery to an inner side of the aperture unit.

18 . An analysis device comprising:

a flow chip at least including a first substrate having light transparency and a second substrate having an inlet port and an outlet port for a fluid;

a holding member for holding the flow chip;

a temperature adjustment unit where the holding member is disposed, and which comes into contact with the second substrate of the flow chip, and performs temperature adjustment of the flow chip;

a fluid supply unit which supplies the fluid to the inlet port, and which discharges the fluid from the outlet port;

an optical detection unit disposed at a side of the first substrate of the flow chip; and

a drive unit driving the holding member in an XY direction,

wherein the temperature adjustment unit includes a heat block coming into contact with the second substrate, a Peltier device disposed below the heat block, and a heat sink disposed below the Peltier device, and

the heat block includes notch units respectively corresponding to the inlet port and the outlet port, and the notch units include a fluid channel extending to the inlet port and a fluid channel extending from the outlet port.

19 . The analysis device according to claim 18 , wherein the fluid channel extending to the inlet port and the fluid channel extending from the outlet port are made of a resin member.

20 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the holding member includes a chip holding unit having an aperture unit and a cartridge fixing unit, and

the flow chip is disposed at a position of the aperture unit.

21 . The analysis device according to claim 20 , wherein the fixing member includes a fixing pin, and the cartridge fixing unit of the holding member has a hole at a position corresponding to the fixing pin, and the holding member inserts the fixing pin into the hole to be disposed on the fixing member.

22 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the optical detection unit is an incident-light fluorescence microscope, and the optical detection unit includes an LED, an optical filter, and a two-dimensional camera.

23 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the second substrate includes reaction portions in a matrix manner and in a regular manner with a regular interval upon a semiconductor light lithography step.

24 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the fluid includes nucleotide modified by multiple fluorochromes, polymerase for performing base elongation, cleaning reagent, image obtaining reagent, and protecting group dissociation reagent, and the reaction method is a sequence by sequence (SBS).

25 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the fluid includes oligomer modified by multiple fluorochromes, ligase for adding oligomer to DNA base, cleaning reagent, image obtaining reagent, and protecting group dissociation reagent, and the reaction method may be a sequence by ligation (SBL).

26 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the fluid supply unit includes at least one syringe and a plurality of valves.

27 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the clamp unit is pressurizing four corners of the flow chip.

28 . The analysis device according to claim 16 , wherein the clamp unit presses two portions of the flow chip in a longitudinal direction.

29 . The analysis device according to claim 17 , wherein the holding member includes a chip holding unit having an opening aperture unit and a cartridge fixing unit, and the flow chip is disposed at a position of the aperture unit.

30 . The analysis device according to claim 29 , wherein the fixing member includes a fixing pin, and the cartridge fixing unit of the holding member has a hole at a position corresponding to the fixing pin, and the holding member is installed on the fixing member when the fixing pin is inserted into the hole.

31 . The analysis device according to claim 17 , wherein the optical detection unit is an incident-light fluorescence microscope, and the optical detection unit includes an LED, an optical filter, and a two-dimensional camera.

32 . The analysis device according to claim 17 , wherein the second substrate includes reaction portions in a matrix manner and in a regular manner with a regular interval upon a semiconductor light lithography step.

33 . The analysis device according to claim 17 , wherein the fluid includes nucleotide modified by multiple fluorochromes, polymerase for performing base elongation, cleaning reagent, image obtaining reagent, and protecting group dissociation reagent, and the reaction method is a sequence by sequence (SBS).

34 . The analysis device according to claim 17 , wherein the fluid includes oligomer modified by multiple fluorochromes, ligase for adding oligomer to DNA base, cleaning reagent, image obtaining reagent, and protecting group dissociation reagent, and the reaction method may be a sequence by ligation (SBL).

35 . The analysis device according to claim 17 , wherein the fluid supply unit includes at least one syringe and a plurality of valves.

36 . The analysis device according to claim 18 , wherein the holding member includes a chip holding unit having an aperture unit and a cartridge fixing unit, and the flow chip is disposed at a position of the aperture unit.

37 . The analysis device according to claim 36 , wherein the temperature adjustment includes a fixing pin, and the cartridge fixing unit of the holding member has a hole at a position corresponding to the fixing pin, and the holding member is installed on the temperature adjustment when the fixing pin is inserted into the hole.

38 . The analysis device according to claim 18 , wherein the optical detection unit is an incident-light fluorescence microscope, and the optical detection unit includes an LED, an optical filter, and a two-dimensional camera.

39 . The analysis device according to claim 18 , wherein the second substrate includes reaction portions in a matrix manner and in a regular manner with a regular interval upon a semiconductor light lithography step.

40 . The analysis device according to claim 18 , wherein the fluid includes nucleotide modified by multiple fluorochromes, polymerase for performing base elongation, cleaning reagent, image obtaining reagent, and protecting group dissociation reagent, and the reaction method is a sequence by sequence (SBS).

41 . The analysis device according to claim 18 , wherein the fluid includes oligomer modified by multiple fluorochromes, ligase for adding oligomer to DNA base, cleaning reagent, image obtaining reagent, and protecting group dissociation reagent, and the reaction method may be a sequence by ligation (SBL).

42 . The analysis device according to claim 18 , wherein the fluid supply unit includes at least one syringe and a plurality of valves.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 14, 2020
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 052398/0249 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 16, 2016
From: KATO, HIROKAZU; SHOJI, TOMOHIRO; HIGASHINO, HIROYUKI; YAMASHITA, TATSUYA; HARIGAE, MITSURU
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039767/0179 →